![]() But what else can teachers do? They can't try and appeal to every single student, not on such a level as trying to make them all love and appreciate reading, so they have to appeal to the select few who will take to it, even if it takes them years to do so, like you. The Great Gatsby is one of the most beautiful books ever written with an incredible understanding of regrets and how they impact people, and yet the typical high schooler will find nothing in it because they just do not care to, and that is okay. They're not generally the type of group to take to that sort of thing and it is a damn shame. Many high schoolers have such issues with teachers trying to make them find meaning in text, and there is simply nothing you can do about that. ![]() His ability to craft a jaw-dropping sentence comes out in spades in almost every single paragraph and this ability allows the portrait of Dublin and humanity to become that much clearer. On the other hand, Dubliners would be absolutely nothing without the perfect writing abilities of Joyce. Catch-22 would be an alright book if it didn't hold within it its absurd humor and terribly tragic characters or the painful realizations of just how fragile and weak we are as people. It's a matter of making this pretty picture feel human and organic that aesthetic writing has so much difficulty in achieving yet, one generally does not come without the other. A book should compel you to delve into itself, to figure out each little idiosyncrasy and understand all of the enigmas it holds. A pretty picture is all fine and good, but once you recognize what each little bush and cloud and imperfection and color choice or what have you means, then you recognize that it's much more than a pretty picture, it's a work of art. Their novels can be taken purely on an aesthetic level because they are both so very gifted at writing yet, once you add meaning to it, the picture gains many more layers than I think could ever be possible with mere aesthetic writing (in most cases). Take, for example, most of Joyce's work as well as Nabokov's. When you look at a pretty picture, simply just appreciating's its aesthetic appeal is perfectly fine, even great. That's all i have to say, this book is simply a masterpiece of literature. I need to understand this works, to know the answers it gives. This book makes me Want to find the meaning behind Ken's word, Learn the lessons he is trying to teach. So many times I saw the trainwreck coming, not wanting it to happen but the closer it got the more I was compelled to Watch and Remember. This book, the characters, the story, the style, the events, the Emotions, the Implacations! I am overcome by this book, I want to reread this book now, I want to stay up all night rereading to understand these characters, to relive the moments where my heart raced and the book shook as I trembled in anticpation. I literally just finished Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, and I now understand what my english teachers were trying to get Me to understand. I just wanted to read and enjoy, but I have been opened up. I always scorned my english teachers in highschool for speaking of imagery, demanding we find meaning in text, and for taking me away from just reading. I dont know who this post is for, I think it's just for me, but maybe it can be for someone else.
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